Gateway Interstellar

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Gateway Interstellar
Origin	Bretonia
Alignment	Lawful
Profile
Date of founding	791 A.S.
Founder(s)	unknown
Base of operations	unknown

Synopsis

Gateway Shipping was founded in 791 A.S. by a group of New London investors interested in hauling raw materials across house borders and independent worlds for sale to various, smaller Sirius companies. Based at the strategically located Kensington Shipping Platform in New London, the firm established a substantial clientele rather quickly. Within a decade and a half, Gateway had concluded contracts with a number of organizations to be their primary shipper, the Independent Miners Guild perhaps the largest and best known among them.

History

Gateway has undergone a number of changes in its short history, not least of which occurred in its leadership. Alisdair Buchanan, a Bretonian businessman, philanthropist, and populist sympathizer, and one of Gateway's initial investors, came to find deeply rooted corrupt practices by a number of Gateway’s executives and investors following the Nomad War (800-801 A.S.). Gradually, he bought out the other investors until he owned a majority percentage of the firm, at which point he fired the executives in question and restructured the company in line with the values of employee and community development. Rechristened Gateway Interstellar, the young firm moved quickly to expand its trade division into a first-class fleet, eventually entering into markets that had been dominated by its rivals.

Today, Gateway Interstellar operates as a company that deeply values its employees and its partners, actively seeking opportunities to develop its services to both. Under Buchanan's leadership, the company has not actively supported the war against Kusari for both humanitarian and economic reasons. However, Gateway has always sought the Bretonian people's best interests, and with Kusari's incursion into Leeds System, the Mobile Headquarters for Gateway - a Royal Liner - has been converted to a refugee ferry to evacuate Planets Leeds and Harris, and other affected locales.

Gateway is known as a classic underdog, a small but energetic firm holding its own in a market of large conglomerates, both private and government-subsidized. While relations remain tense with its primary rival, Bretonia's nationalized Borderworlds Exports, Gateway is recognized as a firm operating squarely within Bretonian identity and interests.

Diplomacy

Allies

Bretonia Police Authority

Bretonian Corporations

Enemies

Mollys

Gaians

Outcasts

Corsairs

Lane Hackers

Red Hessians

Owned Bases

• Kensington Shipping Platform, New London